The report has revealed a number of worrying points about the region - not least, that there were 514 homeless people at the time of the 2011 Census.

The strategy has urged a much larger focus be placed on providing the region's worst-off residents with social housing.

There are currently 400 households on the waiting list for social housing, with 242 of those deemed to be in either very high or high need for housing.

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Housing diversity was another major concern.

Toowoomba's long tendency of producing detached dwellings has recently reduced, from 85 per cent of all development to 72%.

It still falls well short of the medium and high-density housing needed to cater for a forecast increase of 32,830 households by 2031, as well as a population growing older quicker than the rest of Queensland as a whole.

The Toowoomba region had 57,362 dwellings at the time of the 2011 Census.